Barbed-wire spool



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D. G. STOVER.

BARBED WIRE SPOOL.

Patented June 2, 18 85.

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DANIEL C. STOVER, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

BARBED-WIRE SPOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,147, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed February 24, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, DANIEL C. Srovnn, a resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Barbed-Wire Spools; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in spools for barbed wire, its object being to provide a spool requiring less material and laher for its construction than the spools used heretofore, but at the same time answering fully the purpose for which it is made.

The spool is fully described and claimed in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is an end view of the spool, the dotted circle showing the inner surface of the coil to be formed thereon; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow a, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, atop plan of the spool, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow a, Fig. 1.

In these views, A A are two end pieccs,cen trally bored for the passage of a shaft to be used in uncoiling wire from the spool; and B B B B are four parallel cleats nailed in pairs to the opposite edges of the end pieces. The

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outer corners of the four cleats are the lines of contact of the spool and the coil wound thereon, and the distance between them determines the internal diameter of the coil.

Wire is coiled on this spool by placing it in an ordinary spooling and twisting machine and rotating the same, the spool-shaft of the machine passing through the holes 0 in the end pieces, A;

It is evident that instead of two cleats B B on either side of the end pieces,a single wider board or cleat may be nailed on each side of the end pieces, the outer corners of each board occupying the position of the outer corners of the corresponding pair of cleats shown in the drawings.

Having now described and explained my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the centrally-bored end pieces, A A, and the cleats B B B B, nailed upon and connecting said end pieces, substantially as shown and described,and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL C. STOVER.

Witnesses:

L. M. Gunmen, J. A. GRAIN. 

